Casetrack - a cross-platform app for individualized health monitoring

• Main Author: Murman, Emil
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi 2021
• Subjects: Engineering and Technology; Teknik och teknologier
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-454221

With the advent of smart watches, smart scales and similar devices, we all have access to more and more data regarding our physiological health. Conversely, data about our mental state is generally difficult or impossible to aggregate using a device or sensor. This is where Casetrack comes in; a cross-platform application intended to empower users to track less conventional health variables of their own choosing. A prototype version of this application is designed and implemented, prompting significant HCI considerations and research of development technologies. Trade-offs are made between streamlining the application’s UI, and maintaining the ability for users to track whatever arbitrary data they are interested in. A multitude of cross-platform      mobile frameworks are evaluated and graded according to predefined criteria, and React Native is deemed the most appropriate for the project. The UI/UX decisions, the choices of technologies, and the project as a whole were all successful despite some incompatibilities between React Native and Google Firebase.